New evidence of academic fraud at unc.

ACADEMIC fraud; COLLEGE sports teams; BASKETBALL coaching

Former North Carolina basketball player Rashad McCants says fake classes allowed him to stay eligible for the 2005 national championship team Huge college sports business news out of Chapel Hill: A star player on the University of North Carolina men's basketball team that won the 2005 national championship has stepped forward to confess that he stayed academically eligible only because he took fake classes and had others write his term papers. McCants' allegations mirror and amplify many of those first made public in 2011, when the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer began to report about widespread academic fraud at UNC. [Extracted from the article]

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